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# Scilab

## A Free Scientific Software Package

Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Developed since 1990 by researchers from INRIA and ENPC, it is now maintained and developed by Scilab Consortium since its creation in May 2003.
Distributed freely and open source (see the license) via the Internet since 1994, Scilab is currently being used in educational and industrial environments around the world.
Scilab includes hundreds of mathematical functions with the possibility to add interactively programs from various languages (C, Fortran...). It has sophisticated data structures (including lists, polynomials, rational functions, linear systems...), an interpreter and a high level programming language.
Scilab has been designed to be an open system where the user can define new data types and operations on these data types by using overloading.
A number of toolboxes are available with the system:

- 2-D and 3-D graphics, animation
- Linear algebra, sparse matrices
- Polynomials and rational functions
- Simulation: ODE solver and DAE solver
- Scicos: a hybrid dynamic systems modeler and simulator
- Classic and robust control, LMI optimization
- Differentiable and non-differentiable optimization
- Signal processing
- Metanet: graphs and networks
- Parallel Scilab using PVM
- Statistics
- Interface with Computer Algebra (Maple, MuPAD)
- Interface with Tck/Tk
- And a large number of contributions for various domains.

Scilab has been built using a number of external libraries.

Scilab works on most Unix systems including GNU/Linux and on Windows 9X/NT/2000/XP. It comes with source code, on-line help and English user manuals. Binary versions are available.

To be informed about Scilab events you can register to Sciclub
For more information about Scilab, send an e-mail to Doctor Scilab: Scilab@inria.fr

The newsgroup comp.soft-sys.math.scilab is a good place to exchange experience, ideas and Scilab programs.
All the messages of the newsgroup are archived here.

For suggestions about this Web server, send an e-mail to Scilab@inria.fr

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Scilab is a trademark of INRIA.

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